Manship House

Charles Henry Manship came from Maryland to Jackson in 1836 and married Adeline Daley, daughter of the contractor who built the state capitol. The Gothic Revival house they finished in 1857 stayed with the family until 1975, when the state acquired it. In 1937 it hosted the last reunion of Confederate veterans in Mississippi. Between 1976 and 1980 the state archives restored it to show a middle-class southern home as it might have looked in 1888, and it was later closed for foundation repairs.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — 0.7 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 0.8 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Old Capitol Museum — 0.9 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 2.7 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• The "Cotton Bale" Battery — 0.3 mi
• Church of Christ (Holiness) USA — 0.3 mi
• Willie Morris — 0.4 mi
• Boyd House "The Oaks" — 0.4 mi